British artist Mark Oliver makes his "Litter Bugs" from gears, old eyeglasses, tins, and other things he collects as materials for these pieces. Each one is given life through its display with a common name and a "scientific" name. The one above is the "Curio Bug" or "Coleoptera Peculiar." »9/04/14 1:30am 9/04/14 1:30am

Everyone loves a goodtimelapse, but they don't always go as planned. While a Go-Pro camera was collecting footage for an environmental action video, a marmot popped up to investigate. Soon, majestic mountains, serene lakes, and fluttering clouds all made way a snuffling nose and lens-licking tongue. »8/16/14 10:40am 8/16/14 10:40am

Almost every state has a state fossils, but not South Carolina. Inspired by a letter from an 8-year-old girl, a pair of legislators in South Carolina are addressing its paleontological neglect by trying to honour the woolly mammoth. Alas, it isn't that easy. »3/31/14 11:24am 3/31/14 11:24am

When the first explorers returned with the hides of the misnomered Flying Monkey, researchers back home guessed that the colors made for a dazzling mating display. It was only after the xenophotographer Ly Bishop lugged his wide spectrum equipment into the jungles that they realized that the creature's skin let it… »2/21/14 5:00pm 2/21/14 5:00pm

You've seen those apes in 2001: A Space Odyssey a zillion times, but do you ever think about the people who actually played them? What about the man inside the ALF suit, or R2D2? Now it's time to meet them. »8/27/13 3:00pm 8/27/13 3:00pm

Sculptor Wood-Splitter-Lee creates furry and feathered beasts that are strikingly unnatural: wolf-stag hybrids, cats covered in butterfly wings, and masked wolves with blue and green fur. But she gives her sculptures such a convincing anatomy and such remarkable animal expressiveness that they seem ready to take a… »2/10/13 11:00am 2/10/13 11:00am

Illustrator and concept artist Daryl Toh Liem Zhan is working his way through the alphabet by illustrating at least one monster for each letter. But while some of his monsters come from familiar movies and western urban legends, Zhan pulls from the monstrous myths of the world, drawing creatures from Inuit, South… »12/23/12 3:00pm 12/23/12 3:00pm

What creature lurks in the murky depths of your morning coffee? You'll never know for sure — unless you put it there yourself. Hence the need for Creature Cups, these awesome pieces of dishware in which a three-dimensional octopus hides in the deepest recesses of your beverage. »10/31/11 4:00pm 10/31/11 4:00pm

They say that monsters never call another creature "monster." After a lifetime of being told that one is uncanny, the word becomes tiresome. Why pass the insult along to one's brothers? But the question should really be "why not?" »6/09/11 8:00am 6/09/11 8:00am

Enrique Gomez De Molina builds impossible hybrid creatures out of fur and beaks and feathers. They imagine a distant universe where animals are at once avian and mammal, and live side by side with intelligent insect tribes. »4/23/11 9:00am 4/23/11 9:00am

Plenty of artists and would-be naturalists are content to observe extraterrestrial beings from a discreet distance — perhaps a few miles away, via hyperzoom. But only artist Alex Ries, aka Abiogenesis, is willing to approach these creatures and paint them. »3/25/11 8:00am 3/25/11 8:00am

Even Cthulhu has an inner child. And, apparently, a love of tummy tats. This is one of many dark, weird, and downright silly illustrations by concept artist Shreya Shetty. »11/23/10 7:30am 11/23/10 7:30am

The slightly ill-fated brothers Byzantine and Slivovitz Stone had, once again, stumbled into more trouble than they were prepared for on a Friday morning after second breakfast. »2/05/10 6:30am 2/05/10 6:30am

What awful horrors lurk in the minds of the denizens of the ConceptArt forums' users? You may regret wanting to find out. For Halloween, the forums had a creature-art contest, and the results are horrifying indeed. Do you dare look? »10/27/09 1:42pm 10/27/09 1:42pm